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Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress.

A lo largo de veinte años, Balzac escribió dieciséis horas diarias. El resultado de este esfuerzo titánico se materializó en la escritura de noventa y cinco novelas. En sólo tres años escribió más de veinte, alentado por su relación amorosa con la condesa polaca Eveline Hanska. Entre ellas figuran tres de las cuatro que se incluyen en este volumen, dentro de la serie Escenas de la vida de provincia: El ilustre Gaudissart (1832), Eugénie Grandet (1834) y La musa de la provincia, que comenzó a escribir en 1832 y revisó en 1837, año de su publicación. En 1841 publicó Ursule Mirouët.

Théophile Gautier destacó de la obra de su amigo Balzac que con su profundo instinto de la realidad comprendió que la vida moderna que quería pintar estaba dominada por un hecho capital, el dinero. Este volumen incluye las siguientes novelas: Petrilla, El cura de Tours, Un hogar de soltero, La solterona y El gabinete de los antiguos.

Obra cumbre, junto a Ana Karenina, de Lev Tolstói y de la narrativa del XIX, Guerra y paz constituye un vasto fresco histórico y épico.Con la campaña napoleónica contra Rusia como trasfondo -Austerliz, Borodino o el incendio de Moscú- entre los años 1805 y 1813, se nos cuenta la historia de dos familias de la nobleza rusa, los Bolkonski y los Rostov, protagonistas de un mundo que empieza a escenificar su propia desaparición.

To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force.